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1.  Substance  of  the  Speech  of  the  Right  Honourable  Lord 

Grenville,  on  the  Motion  for  an  Address  approving  of 
the  Convention  with  Russia.  With  an  Appendix,  ex- 
hibiting  a  comparative  View  of  the  said  Convention, 
the  Treaty  of  Armed  Neutrality,  and  the  hostile  Treaty 
ofiSooi     3/, 

2.  The  Letters  of  Sulpicius  on  the  Northern  Confederacy,  with 

the  Documents  relative  to  the  Subject.     21, 

3.  Substance  of  the  Speech  of  the  Right  Hon.  William  Wind- 

ham,  on  the  Report  of  an  Address  approving  of  the 
Preliminarias  of  Peace.  Second  Editioj  h  a  copious 
Appendix,     ax.  6d,  ^J' 

4.  Now  in  the  Press,  Substance  of  the  Speech  of  the  Ri^ht 

Hon.  Sir  William  Scott,  on  the  Bill  now  before  Parlia- 
ment, relative  to  the  Non-Residence  of  the  Clergy  and 
other  Affairs  of  the  Church. 

5.  Verses  on  several  Subjects,  written  in  the  Vicinity  of  Stoke 

Park,  in  the  Summer  and  Autumn  of  iSoi^  by  Henry 
James  Pye.  With  a  Portrait  of  the  Author  and  other 
plates.    4f. 

6.  Letters  to  Lord  Hawkesbury  and  Mr.  Addîngton,  on  the 

Preliminaries  of  Peace  with  Buonaparte;  in  which  the 
Consequences  of  those  Preliminaries,  with  respect  to  our 
Military  and  Naval  Power,  our  Colonies,  Commerce, 
and  Manufactures,  are  amply  discussed,  and  accompa- 
nied with  Tables,  exhibiting  a  complete  View  of  the 
Resources  of  the  several  West-India  Colonies,  as  also 
with  an  Appendix,  containing  a  Collection  of  Docu- 
ments relative  to  the  Subject,     js.  in  boards. 


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SIR  JOSEPH   BANKS, 


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'     Sir, 

Ike  following  article,  extracted 
from  tht^ïT^cial  French  paper  of  the  1 8th  in- 
stant, is  not  only  so  little  honourable  to  your 
own  character,  but  so  insulting  to  the  Society 
over  which  you  have  long  presided,  and  so 
repugnant  to  the  genuine  feelings  of  an  En- 
glishman, that  the  public  voice  demands  from 
you  an  explanation  of  the  letter,  if  it  be  au- 
thentic, or  a  disavowal  of  it,  if  it  be  a  forgery, 

NATIONAL   INSTITUTE. 

Letter  of  Sir  Joseph  Banks,  President  of  the  Royal 
Society  of  London,  to  the  Présidait  and  Secre- 
taries of  the  National  Institute  of  Franco, 

**  London,  January  2\^  1802, 
*'  Citizens, 

*'  Be  pleased  to  offer  to  the  National 
Institute  my  warmeçt   thanks  for  the  honour 

A  3  they 


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they  have  doneme,  in  conferring  upon  me,  the 
title  of  Associate  of  this  learned  and  distinguished 

body. 

"  Assure  at  the  same  time  my  respectable 
brothers,  that  I  consider  this  mark  of  their  esteem 
as  the  highest  and  most  enviable  literary  distinction 
tviiich  I  could  possibly  attain.  To  be  the  first 
elected  to  be  an  associate  of  the  first  literary 
society  in  the  world,  surpasses  my  most  ambi- 
tious hopes,  and  I  cannot  be  too  grateful  to- 
wards a  society  which  has  conferr««fc*ipon  me 
tliis  honour,  and  towards  a  nation  of  which  it 
Is  the  literary  representative — a  nation  which, 
during  the  most  frightful  convulsions  of  the  late 
most  terrible  revolution,  ria'cr  ceased  to  passas 
my  esteem;  being  always  persuaded,  even  during 
the  most  disastrous  periods,  that  it  contained 
jnany  good  citizens  who  would  infallibly  get 
the  upper  hand,  and  who  would  re-establish  in 
the  heart  of  their  countrymen  the  empire  of 
virtue,  of  justice,  and  of  honour. 

"  Receive  more  especially,  citizens,  ray 
warmest  acknowledgments  for  the  truly  polite 
manner  in  which  you  communicated  this  agree- 
able intelligence. 

"  I  am,  with  sincere  esteem  for  your  dis- 
tinguished talents,  &c.  ^ 

«  Joseph  Banks." 


7. 

Now,  Sir,  notwithstanding  my  disgust  at 
this  load  of  iilthy  adulation,   I  shall  trouble 
you  with  some  calm  remarks  upon  it.     Sup- 
posing your  acceptance  of  the  nomination  to 
be  perfectly  consistent  with  your  dignity  (which, 
however,  I  deny),  there  would  be  no  material 
objection  to  the  first  and  concluding  paragraphs 
of  your  letter,  which  would  have  been  amply 
sufficient  for  the  purpose  of  acknowledgment  : 
but  the  intermediate  part  is  highly  reprehen- 
sible ;  it  is  replete  with  sentiments  which  are 
a  comp/mpd  of  servility,  disloyalty,  and  false- 
hood ;  Sitiracnts  which  ought  never  to  be  con- 
ceived by  an  English  heart,  never  written  by 
an  English  hand,  and  least  of  all  by  yours,  dis, 
tlnguished  as  you  are  by  repeated  (out  of  res- 
pect to  His  Majesty  I  will  not  s-ay  unmerited) 
marks  of  royal  favour,  and  elevated  to  a  station 
in  which  the.  country  might  be  excused   for 
looking  up  to  you  as  the  jealous  guardian,  not 
the  betrayer,  of  its  literary  credit.     Your  "  re- 
pectabk  brothers'  of  the  French  Institute  may 
perhaps  be  intoxicated  by  the  incense  which 
you  have  lavished  before  their  altar  of  Atheism 
and  Democracy;  for,  although  they  were  com- 
panions of  the  respectable  Buonapdrtc  m  his  ex- 
neditions,  and  plundered  libraries  and  cabinets 

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with  as  much  alacrity,  and  as  little  scruple,  as 
he  displayed  in  treasuries  and  in  churches,  I  do 
not  believe  that  the  ungrateful  nations  vvhom 
they  robbed  ever  composed  such  a  brilliant  eu- 
logium  on  their  talents  and  their  virtues.     No,' 
Sir,  it  was  reserved  for  the  head  of  the  Royal 
Society  of  London,  to  assure  an  exotic  embryo 
academy  that  he  is  more  proud  of  being  a  mere 
Associate  of  the  latter  than  President  of  the  for- 
mer ;  that  he  considers  their  election  of  him  as 
"  the  highest  and  most  enviable  literary  distinc- 
"  tion  which  he  could  possibly  attain;".^  .    that 
he  deems  them  the  first  literary  so^y  in  the 
world     Sir,  I  have  read  with  pleasure  and  with 
f>rofit  many  volumes  published  by  the  Royal 
Society,  and,  with  due  submission  to  you,  I  as- 
sert that  the  cultivation  of  science  is  more  in- 
debted to  their  exertions  than  to  those  of  any 
other  institution  whatsoever.     But  I  am  yet  to 
learn  the  merits  of  this  novel  association  of  re- 
volutionary philosophers  into  which  you  have 
been  enlisted.     What  acts,  but  acts  of  robbery, 
have  we  seen  of  theirs  ?   Where  are  the  proofs 
of  their  pre-eminence  ?  It  is  incumbent  on  you 
to  produce  those  proofs,  and  to  convince  the 
British  literati  Uiat  your  contempt  of  them  is 
just.  ■ 

But 


But  the  plenitude  of  your  joy  admits  no 
consideration    for    English    societies,    or    the 
English    nation:  you  exult  in  your  new  ho- 
nours, and    your  gratitude  knows    no    limits 
but  those  of  France  ;  it  overleaps  the  cradle  of 
the  infant  Institute,  and  expands  itself  through- 
out a  nation  which  you  say  has  "  never  ceased 
"  to  possess  your  esteem  during  the  most  frightful 
"  convulsions  of  the  revolution  ;  beijig  always  per-. 
"  suaded,  even  during  the  most  disastrous  periods, 
"  that  it  contained  many  good  citizens  who  would 
"  infalUbt^et  the  upper  hand  (as  you  elegantly 
express  it)  «  and  who  would  re-establish  in  the 
"  heart  of  their  countrymen  the  empire  of  virtue, 
"  of  justice,  and  of  honora:"     Really,  Sir,    I 
know  not  which  excites  the  greater  admiration, 
the  impetuous  torrent  of  your  esteem  which 
bears  away  the  Icebie  impediments  of  loyalty,    ' 
patriotism,  morality,  and  religion,  or  the  won- 
derful sagacity  of  your  prognostics,   some  of 
which  are  accomplished,  and  for  the  rest  we 
must  wait  the  Consul's  leisure.     The  good  cili- 
zen  Buonapa-té  has  already  got  the  upper  hand. 
but  when  he  will  re-establish  the  empire  of  vir- 
tue, of  justice,  and  of  honour,  in  the  hearts  of 
the  republican  Frenchmen    (where  I  suspect 
tlicy  never  had  much  foundation)  your  pene- 
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tratîon  only  can  foresee.  As  to  religion,  you 
seem  ypurself  to  despair  of  its  restqration,  since 
you  do  not  even  mention  it  ;  or  pcriraps  you 
deemed  it  a  ipatter  of  too  little  imjv  rtancc  to 
merit  tlie  consideration  of  philosophers. 

\  inust  not  omit  another  observation,  that 
the  French  people,  '*  never  ceased  io  possess  your 
"  estean  during  the  most  frightful  convulsions  of 
*'  the  révolution:'     There  is  a  singular  coinci- 
dence between  the  sentiment  and  the  time"  at 
which   it   is   uttered.       Your    letter   is  dated 
January    21.     Sir,  the  ^lUt  of    hp    ary   was 
the    day  on  Vvhich  the  ill-tated    Louis  XVI. 
was  executed  by  his  traiterons  subjects;  and 
it  is  the  anniversary  d  tl|î^t  day  which  you 
select   to  assure  his  assassins  that  **  they  never 
**  ceased  to  posms  your  esteem  !  !  !'     I  will  not 
assert  that  you   designedly  combined  die  de- 
claration and  the  date;  but  the  French  Jaco- 
bins arc  too  quick-sighted  not  to  rcn>ark  the 
dfc.un?stîyijcc,  and  to  deduce  their  inference  ;  ^ 
and  the  English  Jacobins  will  do  the  same:, 
nay,    I  verily  believe   that  this  circumstance, 
together  with  an  opportunity  (which  they  are 
ever  ready  to  embrace)  of  wounding  the  pride 
of  Englishmen,   wei;ç  the  motives  which   ni- 

duced  the  publication  of  your  letter. 

But 


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But  after  all,  Sir,  why  this  display  of  gr^ 
titude  ?     You  must  acknowledge  it  to  be,  4t 
least  superfluous  ;    because    the    French    na- 
tion by  electing  you  4  member  of  tb^ir  In- 
stitute   merely    discharged    an    old    account. 
Vou   understand   me,   Sir;    but  as  tlie  public 
are   probably   not  so  well  informed,    I  must 
çolicit  their  attention  to  the  following   anec- 
dote.     Soon    after    the    judicial    murder    of 
Louis  XVI.  one    of  the  officers  who  accom- 
panied t^^  unfortunate  La  Pérouse  returned  to 
Europe  with  numerous  specimens  of  natur^^I 
history,    collected  during   tlic    early    part    of 
his  voyage  of  discovery.      In  these  latitudes 
he    first    obtained    intelligence    of  the    revo- 
lution, and  being  a  man  of  honour,  felt  th^t 
he    was    accountable  only   to  the   Crown    pf 
France,    from    which    lie   had   accepted    his 
commission.      Accordingly    l^e    brought    his 
vessel  to  an  English  port,  from  whence,  by 
permission  of  our  government,  the  cofgo  was 
conveyed  to  London,  and  committed   to  the 
custody  of  a  nobleman  who,  at  that  time,  was 
the  agent  of  the  French  Princes.     This  no- 
bleman,    having    communicated   the    circum- 
stance to  Louis  XVIIL  was  instructed  to  offer 
tQ  the    Queen  any  part  of  the  curiosities    of 

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present  the  remainder  to  the  British  Museum. 
You  must  remember.  Sir,  that,  in  pursuance 
of  these  instructions,  the  entire  (or  nearly  the 
entire)    collection    was  confided    to  you,  in 
order  to   be  deposited  in   the  Museum;  and 
you  cannot  forget  that  you  disposed  of  it  by 
sending  it  all  to   France,  with   no   authority 
but  your  own,   with  no  pretence  except  that 
tfie  philosophers  of  the  two  nations  were  not  at 
tvar.     Thus,  Sir,  you  imposed  an  j^bligation 
on    the   French,    which  they  have  repaid,  it 
seems,  to  your  exquisite  gratification.     By  die 
sacrifice  of  what  duties  and  what  principles 
that  obligation  was  imposed,  it  is  not  for  mc 
to  say;  but  I  will  without  hesitation  assert,  diat 
your   acknowledgment    of   its    discharge  has 
brought  disgrace  upon  your  country,  and  dis- 
credit  on  the  Royal  Society,  the  guardianship 
of  whose  honour  was  confided  to  you  by  your 
Sovereign. 

I  am.  Sir,  &c.  &c. 

MISOGALLUS. 


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Lest  the  correctness  of  the  translation  of 
Sir  Joseph's  letter  should  be  questioned,  we 
have  inserted  the  letter,  as  it  appears  in  the 
Moniteur.' 

INSTITUT   NATIONAL. 

Traduction  d'mie  Lettre  de  Sir  Joseph  Banks, 
Président  de  la  Société  Royale  de  Londres, 
aiix  Président  et  Secrétaires  de  P Institut  Na- 
iional  de  France. 

Londres,  2 1  Janvier,  1  §02. 
Citoyens, 

Veuillez  offrir  à  l'Institut  National 
l'expression  de  ma  reconnaissance,  pour  l'hon- 
neur qu'on  m'a  foit  en  me  donnant  le  titre  d'as- 
socié de  ce  corps  savant  et  distingué. 

Assurez  en  même  temps  mes  respectables 
confrères  que  je  considère  cette  marque  de  leur 
estime  comme  la  première  et  la  plus  agréable 
des  distinctions  littéraires  que  je  pusse  recevoir. 
Etre  le  premier  choisi  pour  associé  de  la  pre- 
mière société  littéraire  du  monde,  surpasse  mes 
vœux  les  plus  ambitieux  ;  et  je  ne  puis  être  trop 
reconnaissant  envers  la  société  qui  m'a  conféré 
cet  honneur,  et  envers  la  nation  dont  elle  est  la 
représentation  littéraire;  nation  qui,  pendant 
les  convulsions  les  plus  affreuses  de  la  plus  terri- 
ble révolution,   n'a  jamais  cessé  d'avoir  mon 

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même  pendant  les  péffedes  les  plus  désastreuse*?, 
qiie  les  bons  citoyens  y  étaient  en  nombre  con- 
sidérable, quails  reprendraient  infailliblement  le 
dessus,  et  qùlls  rétabliraient  dans  le  cœur  de 
leurs  compatriotes  Fempire  de  la  vertu,  de  la 
justice,  et  de  Thonnéun  / 

Recevez  en  particulier,  citoyens,  tous  mes 
remercîmens  pour  la  manière  vraiment  obli- 
geante dont  vous  m'avez   communiqué  cette 

bonne  nouvelle. 

Je  suis  avec  une  estime  sincèce  pour  vos 

lalens  distiniçués,  etc. 

Sisnc.  JosjEPH  Banks. 


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actions of  past  Times  as  do,  or  may,  affect  the  Circumstance! 
of  the  present  Time.    For,  instance,  the  same  Number  which 
contains  a   Discussion  of  that  Part  of  the  Treaty  of  Amiens 
which  relates  to  Guiana,  also  contains  such  Parts  of  the  Trea- 
ties of  Utrecht  and  of  Paris   as  relate  to  the  Frencli  ^nd  the 
Portuguese  Territory  in  that  Part  of  the  World.     Again  •  in 
order   to  show  what  the  Views  of  France  are  in  preventing 
England  from  having  Treaties  of  Commerce  with  other  Na- 
tions, Extracts  are  made  from  Thirteen  Treaties  between  France 
and  other  Powers,  in  which  the  Republic  has  either  made,  or 
stipulated  for.  Treaties  of  Commerce.      So  that  the  Register 
does,  in  fact,  contain  all   the  authentic  Materials  and  Informa- 
tion that  can  possibly  be  necessary  to  the  forming  of  a  correct 
Judgment  on  current  Events.     III.    Fair  and  free  Discussions  oi 
the   mtasu.es  of    Guvernment,    whetiier   relating    to   foreigu 
Affairs,  CoîonieÇ:    Commerce,  Manufactures,  Revenue,  Debts, 
Expenditures,   Laws  civil,  military,  or  ecclesiastical.     On  these 
various  and  important  subjects  the  Work  already  contains  such 
Information  as  the  Editor  is  led  to  hope  has  been  of  some  ser- 
vice to  the  Cou.itry.     Nor  are  Transactions,  of  a  nature  not  so 
immediately  political,  excluded  from  notice;  as  in  the  Instances 
of  the   Letters  to  Sir  Joseph  Banks  and  Mr.  Otto.     In   short, 
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